Friday, November 22, 2013

November People's Choice Award

The people have spoken... The November People's Choice Award
goes to Mark Sherstinsky for his original short play, A David Lynch Family
Christmas, presented as a staged reading at the PlayGround-LA Monday Night
PlayGround November 11 performance at the Zephyr Theatre. Congratulations, Mark!

Courtesy of Mr. Sherstinsky, we're pleased to share the
first two pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy!

A DAVID LYNCH FAMILY
CHRISTMAS

by Mark Sherstinsky

Characters:

DAVID (aka David Lynch Junior) male, seven years old (played
by adult)

MOM female, adult

DAD (aka David Lynch Senior) male, adult

Lights up on stage.
There is a paper flip board and a chair up

stage. DAVID enters in
a nightgown, appearing to be

sleepwalking, and
stops at center stage.

DAVID

Hi. Can you keep a secret? I don’t really sleepwalk. I’m
awake. I’m just bored. Or

crazy. I’m not sure. Can you be both at the same time? I
read about sleepwalking when

I was five, and I was, like, Wow! Sleeping, plus walking.
Now, I’m seven. And I’ve

been pretending to sleepwalk the whole time. My Mom and Dad
believe that I’m

actually asleep. And even though I keep them awake, and
drive them crazy, and it’s all a

big lie, I can’t stop.

MOM enters from stage
left and DAVID approaches MOM.

MOM

David. David? (MOM
waves hand in front of DAVID’s face. DAVID does not react.)

Do you need to go to the bathroom?

DAVID

Uh huh.

MOM walks DAVID over
to a toilet (chair) and sits DAVID down.

MOM

Let’s do this and go back to bed.

DAVID

I can’t do it, Mom.

MOM

You can.

DAVID

No. I can’t. Sing the song. I need the song.

MOM

You don’t need the song. Ok. Ok. (Sings, like a lullaby*) You shake my nerves and you